Thursday 13 July - Sussex Saleroom
Lots 1 – 89
Books from the Library of Anthony and Clarissa Eden
Lots 90 – 200 Various Properties
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | LOCKHART, Robert Hamilton Bruce (1887-1970). Jan Masaryk. A Personal Memoir, London, The Dropmore Press, 1951, 4to, plate, original buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 152 OF 500 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. | £100 - £150 | £160 | View |
| 48 | LOCKHART, Robert Hamilton Bruce (1887-1970). My Rod My Comfort, London, The Dropmore Press, 1949, 4to, plates by J. Gaastra, vellum-backed buckram. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 63 OF 550 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. | £70 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 49 | MACKENZIE KING, William Lyon (1874-1950, Prime Minister of Canada from 1935-48, and before). Canada at Britain's Side, Toronto, 1941, 8vo, red buckram. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed extensively by the author to Anthony Eden. | £500 - £800 | £420 | View |
| 50 | MILTON, John (1608-74). Paradise Lost ... The Eighth Edition [Third vol:] Paradise Regained [etc], London, 1775-77, 3 volumes, 4to, 20 engraved plates, contemporary calf (rebacked). (3) | £200 - £300 | £300 | View |
| 51 | Miroir des Vertus et des Arts. Spiegel der Deugden en Konsten, Haarlem, 1706, small 4to, hand-coloured allegorical title and 66 FINE HAND-COLOURED EMBLEMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS, contemporary vellum. RARE. | £500 - £800 | £800 | View |
| 52 | MOORE, George (1852-1933). Heloise and Abelard, London, 1921, 2 volumes, 8vo, original vellum-backed boards. NUMBER 127 OF 1,500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With 2 other related books. (4) | £70 - £100 | £20 | View |
| 53 | MORICE, Charles (1861-1919). Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1919, 4to, plates, later red cloth, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Anthony Eden. With 3 other related books. (4) | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 54 | MOUNTBATTEN, Louis (1900-79). Report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia 1943-1945, London, 1951, 4to, buckram, wrappers bound in. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Mountbatten to Eden. | £500 - £800 | £1,200 | View |
| 55 | NONESUCH PRESS - Bernard de FONTENELLE (1657-1757). A Plurality of Worlds, London, 1929, 8vo, colour-stencilled astrological illustrations by T. L. Poulton, original vellum gilt. ONE OF 1,600 COPIES. With 9 other books printed by the same press. (10) | £500 - £800 | £400 | View |
| 56 | NONESUCH PRESS - HOMER (fl. 9TH- or 8TH-CENTURY B.C.E.). The Iliad, London, 1931, small folio, ornaments, original niger morocco. ONE OF 1,450 COPIES. With Francis Meynell's rare printed note relating to this edition loosely-inserted. | £100 - £150 | £320 | View |
| 57 | NONESUCH PRESS - William WYCHERLEY (1641-1716). The Complete Works, London, 1924, 4 vols., 4to, original buckram-backed boards. ONE OF 75 COPIES. With 3 other works by the Nonesuch Press in 8 vols. Provenance: Anthony Eden (old armorial bookplates). (12) | £200 - £300 | £190 | View |
| 58 | [PATMORE, Coventry (1823-96)]. The Unknown Eros and Other Odes, London, 1877, 8vo, original buckram (faded), with a one-page autograph letter from the author tipped-in at the front, old bookplate of Anthony Eden. With 5 other books by Patmore. (6) | £300 - £500 | £280 | View |
| 59 | PATTERSON, John Henry (1867-1947). The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, London, August 1910, large 8vo, original pictorial buckram gilt. Reprint. INSCRIBED in pencil by Anthony Eden, "This book belonged to my younger brother, Nicholas. A." | £70 - £100 | £70 | View |
| 60 | PEPYS, Samuel (1633-1703). Memoirs ... Comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, London, 1828, 5 volumes, 8vo, plates, attractively bound in contemporary olive morocco gilt. (5) | £70 - £100 | £350 | View |
| 61 | POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady, London, 1735, folio, later grey paper boards. FIRST EDITION. With 2 other books. (3) | £200 - £300 | £480 | View |
| 62 | ROSEBERY, Lord (1847-1929). Lord Randolph Churchill, London, 1906, 8vo, original green buckram. FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED TWICE AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN. | £100 - £150 | £190 | View |
| 63 | ROWSE, A. L. (1903-97). The Later Churchills, London, 1958, large 8vo, original buckram. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Clarissa and Anthony Eden. With 2 other books by the same author, both PRESENTATION COPIES. (3) | £100 - £150 | £90 | View |
| 64 | SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London, August 1918, 8vo, original wrappers, FIRST EDITION, second impression, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to H. T. Baker in pencil on the half title. | £400 - £600 | £1,300 | View |
| 65 | SCHMIDT, Paul-Otto (1899-1970). Hitler's Interpreter, London, 1951, 8vo, half tone illustrations, original buckram. FIRST ENGLISH ABRIDGED EDITION, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. | £700 - £1,000 | £600 | View |
| 66 | SETON HUTCHISON, Graham (1890-1946). Kitchener, London, 1944, small 4to, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 52 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed extensively by the author to Anthony Eden. RARE. | £100 - £150 | £100 | View |
| 67 | SETON-WATSON, Robert (1879-1951). Britain and the Dictators, Cambridge, 1938, 8vo, buckram. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. With another by the same author. (2) | £700 - £1,000 | - | View |
| 68 | SHERIDAN, R. B. (1751-1816). The School for Scandal, London, [1910], 4to, 25 coloured plates by Hugh Thomson, original elaborate vellum gilt. NUMBER 126 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With 4 other illustrated works in 5 vols. (6) | £300 - £500 | £150 | View |
| 68a | SPEARS, E. L. (1886-1974). Prelude to Victory, London, 1940, 8vo, plates and maps, original buckram. FIRST EDITION, second impression. ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. | £400 - £600 | £650 | View |
| 69 | STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-94). Kidnapped, [London], 1886, 8vo, folding map, original red cloth (worn). FIRST EDITION, inscribed by Eden. Please see the footnote below. | £200 - £300 | £320 | View |
| 70 | STIMSON, Henry Lewis (1867-1950). The Far Eastern Crisis, New York, 1936, large 8vo, half tone frontispiece portrait and plates, original buckram. Second edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. | £300 - £500 | £800 | View |
| 71 | TAYLOR, Myron C. (1874-1959, editor). Wartime Correspondence between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII, New York, 1947, large 8vo, original cream parchment, slipcase. FIRST EDITION, EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. | £70 - £100 | £100 | View |
| 72 | THE FLORENCE PRESS - John KEATS (1795-1821). The Poems, London, 1915, 2 volumes, square 8vo, original vellum boards. NUMBER 183 OF 250 COPIES. With Shelley's The Lyrical Poems (London, The Florence Press,1918, vellum, ONE OF 250 COPIES), and another. (4) | £300 - £500 | £450 | View |
| 73 | TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708), and others. The Compleat Herbal ... With large Additions from Ray, Gerarde, Parkinson, and others, London, 1719, vol. one only (of 2), 4to, engraved plates, contemporary calf. Sold not subject to return. | £70 - £100 | £140 | View |
| 74 | TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-82). [Selected Novels], London, [c.1880], 43 volumes, 8vo, very attractively bound in contemporary polished tan half calf, the spines with red and green morocco lettering-pieces. (43) | £400 - £600 | £1,700 | View |
| 75 | VALERY, Paul (1871-1945). Regards sur le Monde Actuel, Paris, 1931, 8vo, wrappers, "44e édition" (in very small letters on the backstrip). PRESENTATION COPY, the front endpaper inscribed, "à Monsieur A. Eden, hommage sincère de l' auteur, Paul Valéry." | £70 - £100 | £80 | View |
| 76 | VIETNAM - Victor BATOR (1891-1967). Vietnam, New York, 1965, 8vo, morocco. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. With 6 other books related, one inscribed by Eden, the others ANNOTATED by him. (7) | £300 - £500 | £320 | View |
| 77 | VOLTAIRE (1694-1778). Memoires, "Londres", 1784, 8vo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary blue calf elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, the covers with central crowned initial "P" stamped in gilt. With another work by the same author in 2 vols. (3) | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 78 | WHEELER-BENNETT, John (1902-75). Munich. Prologue to Tragedy, London, 1948, 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN INK BY ANTHONY EDEN. | £700 - £1,000 | £750 | View |
| 79 | WHEELER-BENNETT, John (1902-75). The Nemesis of Power, London, 1956, large 8vo, original plum cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. With 4 other books by the same author, all PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed to Eden. (5) | £300 - £500 | £380 | View |
| 80 | WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903). Eden versus Whistler, Paris, 1899, large 8vo, original boards. FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, with the old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden. With another book by Whistler, and a related album. (3) | £100 - £150 | £160 | View |
| 81 | WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Essays, Criticisms and Reviews, London, "Privately Printed," 1901, 4to, original blue printed paper boards (covers detached, rather worn). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 221 OF 300 COPIES. RARE. With 4 other books of related interest. (5) | £300 - £500 | £1,200 | View |
| 82 | WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, Richard, Baron (1869-1923). The Sport of our Ancestors, London, 1921, 4to, 20 plates by G. D. Armour, boards. NO. 4 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. | £70 - £100 | £120 | View |
| 83 | WINE - Charles Walter BERRY. In Search of Wine, London, 1935, original red buckram. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. With 6 other books of related interest including 3 PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed to Anthony Eden. (7) | £200 - £300 | £550 | View |
| 84 | YOSHIDA, Shigeru (1878-1967). The Yoshida Memoirs, Boston, 1962, large 8vo, original black buckram. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
| 85 | BOOKS ANNOTATED BY, OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH, ANTHONY EDEN. Please see the full listing below. (c.60) | £3,000 - £5,000 | - | View |
| 86 | BOOKS PRESENTED TO ANTHONY EDEN. Please see the full listing below. (c.90) | £3,000 - £5,000 | £2,400 | View |
| 87 | ACHESON, Alice (1895-1996, artist). Two Views of the Villa Nova, Barbados, signed "Alice Acheson" lower right, one watercolour on paper (355 x 490mm), the other pen on paper (210 x 290mm), framed and glazed. (2) | £400 - £600 | - | View |
| 88 | ROUSSEAU, Michel (b.1927, artist). Six Views of Fyfield Manor, Wiltshire, all signed and dated "M. Rousseau 62", one inscribed to Anthony and Clarissa Eden, another to Clarissa Eden, pen and ink on paper, each c.360 x 260mm., framed and glazed. (6) | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
| 89 | SEGONZAC, André Dunoyer de (1884-1974) - A Collection of 13 works by André Dunoyer de Segonzac in 15 volumes, all except one PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed by the artist to Anthony or to Anthony and Clarissa Eden. Please see the full listing below. (15) | £700 - £1,000 | £350 | View |
| 90 | ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO - [Lorenzo MAGALOTTI (1637-1712), editor] & others. Saggi di Naturali Esperienze, Florence, 1691, folio, 75 full-page engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum-backed boards. Second edition. | £400 - £600 | £420 | View |
| 91 | ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, London, 1812, 2 vols., folio, portrait, plan, 82 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary morocco (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. With another book. (3) | £300 - £500 | £280 | View |
| 92 | ALBUM - A 4to album (225 x 185mm), on c.80 leaves, mid-19th-century, containing original watercolours of flowers and butterflies, portraits, topographical scenes, poetical quotations, bound in contemporary morocco gilt stamped "Marianne". | £70 - £100 | £220 | View |
| 93 | ARNOLD, Matthew (1822-88). Empedocles on Etna, London, [The Vale Press at] The Ballantyne Press, 1896, 8vo, printed in red and black, decorations by Charles Ricketts, original boards. With 8 other illustrated works in 9 vols. (10) | £300 - £500 | £240 | View |